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Old 04-20-2008, 10:34 PM   #38
shadowfyr
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Re: Are MUDs the clog dancing of online gaming?

Well, lets be clear. There is Java and JScript. If your are running IE, then some clowns Java client is likely to be running in the later. It should be noted that one reason Mushclient's developer doesn't recommend using "any" language linked via ActiveScript (the component that ties IE to JScript) anymore is because we had people doing this sort of stuff a lot:

Mushclient uses this to execute arbitrary code inside triggers, timer, etc., by fast loading the code into the engine, running it, then dumping it again. ActiveScript seems to have a garbage collection bug, which causes it to slowly swallow memory up, when ever you make the sort of calls above. In other words, ActiveScript based "languages" are ***not*** stable in certain uses. They also often have wacky integration issues, which caused Nick to abandon attempts to try to include more of them, after PHP kept exploding on him for no damn reason. This issue though seems to be in how the people that code the Windows versions of the languages integrated them with ActiveScript.

But, yeah, presumably if you have firefox, you probably have some version of Java, so, except for version differences, which *can* cause odd bugs, it could work in all browsers. There are a lot of ifs in that, for something as complex as a client, even without introducing the question of, "What if some fool tries to make it run in MS' garbage excuse for a Java system?"
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